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Fumblings about Compassion
“One with compassion is kind even when angry one without compassion will kill as he smiles.” Shabkar – Tibetan poet I’ve re-posted this here now: https://shittyphilosophy.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/fumblings-about-compassion/ I went to Krakow, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II – Birkenau. It was surprising how un-horrifying it was. Birkenau was certainly bleak but its very hard to picture in…
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What if the trees were the real angels?
I’ve re-posted this here: https://shittyphilosophy.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/what-if-the-trees-were-the-real-angels/ What if the trees were the real angels? This is what I sat to think looking at this war memorial angel statue in Lier. Turns out there is a name for this – Pantheism. But my interpretation is roughly that Nature and God are the same thing. It’s reasonable to…
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Translating Sublime Text into Vim
Intro Coming from a Windows world getting into Vim, to me is almost exactly like the struggles I had learning French or Dutch. I spent 10 years learning French growing up and I can’t speak a proper sentence. I then moved from England to the Dutch speaking part of Belgium (Flanders) and I learnt to…
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Jesus for Atheists
I’ve re-posted this here: https://shittyphilosophy.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/jesus-for-atheists/ I guess this is not much more than a review of Leo Tolstoy’s book ‘A Confession’ and his other books on religion. I’ve been an atheist as long as I felt that the words in the Lord’s Prayer were ridiculous. I believe the Bible is a work of fiction like…
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Headspace is better than coffee
More generically this would be meditation is better than coffee, but the only meditation I do is via Headspace. My central point is that it’s better to give up on coffee and replace it with meditation. I’ve been drinking a lot of coffee for years. I guess 4-5 mugs of coffee per day plus at…
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Vim Language Server Client (LSC) plugin first impressions
After months of problems with CoC: https://github.com/neoclide/coc-eslint/issues/72 I’ve given up and I’m trying other plugins. I used ALE for ages with eslint, but never got it decently working using LSP. I tried ALE with Deoplete – but ALE is very slow and deoplete took ages to configure (python3 + pip + msgpack 1.0+ is a…
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Embracing the Neovim/Vim Terminal
I’ve only finally just started using Neovim’s terminal. Vim 8 has this too of course, but it was Neovim that championed it and included it by default. I switched to Neovim about a year ago to see if there was anything missing compared to Vim. I find Neovim fascinating purely because of how faithful it…
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Getting started with ReasonML
I write this as a stumbling fumbling guide for how to actually get started, when all you have is a Javascript and React backgroud with no knowledge of OCaml. I’m using a combination of Fedora and Ubuntu. Obviously start here: https://reasonml.github.io/ Installation I even went off the rails at this point because you need globally…
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Using ReasonML with Vim / Neovim
Here’s my attempts to get ReasonML working within Vim and the journey it took me on to understand what language servers are. If you’re using Vim this is essentially step 2 of the ‘quick start’ guide for reason: editor plugins. Warning to all who enter here… this took me 10+ hours to fix. It’s because…
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A dive into the many faces of manifolds
What are manifolds? I started down this rabbit hole because of Chris Colah’s excellent Neural Networks / Functional programming blog post: At their crudest, types in computer science are a way of embedding some kind of data in n bits. Similarly, representations in deep learning are a way to embed a data manifold in n…
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Ian Channing 